How Kids Learn Resilience

Paul Tough with an in-depth article in the The Atlantic about "How Kids Learn Resilience":

But here's the problem: For all our talk about noncognitive skills, nobody has yet found a reliable way to teach kids to be grittier or more resilient. And it has become clear, at the same time, that the educators who are best able to engender noncognitive abilities in their students often do so without really "teaching" these capacities the way one might teach math or reading—indeed, they often do so without ever saying a word about them in the classroom. This paradox has raised a pressing question for a new generation of researchers: Is the teaching paradigm the right one to use when it comes to helping young people develop noncognitive capacities?

• Paul Tough
• June 2016 Issue
• Education
• http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/how-kids-really-succeed/480744/